The UK is at risk of losing hundreds of GPs because of home office red tape, the Government has been warned. The Royal College of GPs has called for newly qualified GPs to be given automatic and indefinite leave to remain, warning many face deportation at the end of their training. GP training has been…

Practices have successfully managed pressure from high risk patients by using nurse led telephone intervention service, it has been revealed. A study in Yorkshire has found that regular phone contact from nurses significantly cut visits to emergency departments among these patients. The analysis set out to establish whether the nurse interventions diverted the pressure from…

GP representation is set for a major shake-up reflecting the three kinds of doctor working in the profession, a conference has heard. The British Medical Association’s GP committee may cease to be the only negotiating body representing GPs because of its growing conflicts of interest in representing both employers and employees, the conference of local…

General practice in Scotland has suffered a decline in public support in spite of continuing high levels of satisfaction, according to a new survey. Some 67% of patients reported a positive experience of care in the Scottish government survey of 130,000 patients, reported by the Daily Telegraph. This represented a decline of 12 percentage points…

GPs have voted against implementing nine to five working hours – although they have demanded limits on practice workloads. The conference of local medical committees, meeting yesterday, was asked to vote on whether to demand that GP core hours be restricted to 40 hours a week. After a stormy debate, it voted to reject the…

GPs and practice staff across London face “appalling and systemic” racism from the public, according to a new report. More than a third of workers in primary health reported experiencing racial discrimination or harassment within the previous year, according to a Health Education England investigation into London. In the survey of 1,000 GPs and other…

The average number of patients under the care of every fully qualified GP has reached 2,200 – with numbers per doctor reaching 3,000 in one town, according to an analysis published today. The numbers have increased by a tenth in the last five years, according to the analysis by the Liberal Democrats, published in the…